Arthur Collins, the federal government's...

SPACE AGENCY.

December 26, 1986

OTTAWA — SPACE AGENCY. Arthur Collins, the federal government's chief science adviser, will head a team that will plan a space agency. The government announced in the speech from the throne in October that one would be set up, and Prime Minister Brian Mulroney wants it in operation by the spring. Collins, 57, an oceanographer and marine scientist, has been chief science adviser since 1985 and is a special adviser to Science and Technology Minister Frank Oberle.